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Samsung 870 EVO 500GB 2.5 Inch SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-77E500B/AM)

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Price

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Product

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Speed

(42 reviews)
Work

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Upgrade

(25 reviews)
Installation

(20 reviews)
Performance

(35 reviews)
Software

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Install

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Seagate

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Drive

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Disk

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Reviews around expect (5.00 of 5)

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Reviews around value (5.00 of 5)

  • Great Upgrade Drive Replacement from 240GB to 1TB.Great value for money, well worth the upgrade or as Primary Drive with Reliability.
  • This item is easy to install,great value for money and amazing durability.
  • Easy installation, very good speeds for games, decreased my boot time by half, value for money is the best!
  • While its definetly not value for money, it is darn reliable for the money
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Reviews around quality (5.00 of 5)

  • Samsung EVO brand is top quality and performance (speed & lifetime), so if available at a good price it's what I go for.
  • Obviously not the best performing, but it is a good quality drive
  • Product meets the description, good quality, recommended.
  • I use the SSD in an Inateck enclosure, plugged into the back of an Oppo 203, and from there to some very good quality gear
  • Few months after and the Performance is as expected of a high quality product like this = Amazing.
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Reviews around price (4.81 of 5)

  • This is my 4th EVO I have purchased and these drives are solid and great price
  • I needed a new SSD Card for my computer and this one was a Samsung for a very good price
  • Should have went with a better hard drive at a more reasonable price instead of this brand named one.
  • I don't regret buying this hard drive, not to mention that the price was great.
  • I was in Europe when that happened so the price was reasonable enough
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Reviews around product (4.73 of 5)

  • O errors on two of the 4 drives.
  • Product meets the description, good quality, recommended.
  • Product works well very fast install will depend on what laptop you are installing it into
  • This is a very terrible product
  • SSD that is a Solid Performer, quick booting, so far very reliable and a great product
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Reviews around speed (4.72 of 5)

  • From the pros: everything is perfect, it works perfectly, the speed of work is just super, compared to the old hdd
  • Great product,, Great speeds, Not super easy to install
  • From the pros: everything is perfect, it works perfectly, the speed of work is just super, compared to the old hdd
  • Speed, reliability, and backed up by a real warranty by Samsung, had a problem with 1
  • Great product,, Great speeds, Not super easy to install
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Reviews around work (4.66 of 5)

  • Fast shipping and working perfect in my MacBook Pro 2012
  • This is a life changer for a old PC - easy to transfer with Samsung's software and works perfect
  • It is great, working perfectly easy to install and the most importan goal, is really fast, on the start up and working on application, finding files
  • Product works well very fast install will depend on what laptop you are installing it into
  • O errors on two of the 4 drives.
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Reviews around upgrade (4.52 of 5)

  • An amazing upgrade for my long-in-the-tooth desktop computer
  • The SSD is working perfectly, it is such a great upgrade and everything is working faster than ever
  • Upgrading to an SSD was the right decision and the SAMSUNG 870 EVO 500GB is an easy upgrade
  • My PC hard drive was beginning to have issues and the SAMSUNG 870 was a wonderful upgrade.
  • Works great, definite noticeable upgrade from a HDD, loads quickly and works just as it should.
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Reviews around installation (4.41 of 5)

  • Easy installation, very good speeds for games, decreased my boot time by half, value for money is the best!
  • Although I am very happy with this SSD, installation didn't go well
  • Installation was easy, but be sure you have mounting screws just in case.
  • O errors on two of the 4 drives.
  • the installation is weird, you can always download the Windows 10 ISO from Microsoft's site, using their tool, run the installation, and do an In-Place Upgrade
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Reviews around performance (4.34 of 5)

  • Easy to install and vastly improved the performance of my PS4
  • Upgraded the hard drive in my Asus notebook which was experiencing slow performance
  • Very nice performance improvement when replacing a hard drive with this SSD
  • destroys the ps4 performance
  • Very nice performance improvement when replacing a hard drive with this SSD
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Reviews around software (4.24 of 5)

  • Samsung software advertised as easy to clone the hard drive to the new one.
  • My only complaint to Samsung is that their Magician software seems useless
  • Several reviews trash the Samsung software; I found it easy to use and flawless in copy performance
  • The Samsung software made it very easy to copy all my data and the operating system from my old hard drive onto the Samsung SSD
  • Download and install the (free) Samsung "Magician" software from their website.
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Reviews around install (4.08 of 5)

  • I had no issue cloning and installing
  • After that the install went smoothely, no issues.
  • I did a fresh install of win 10 and all worked smoothly
  • A fresh install of Windows 10 went very fast, much faster than a standard hard drive
  • I did a fresh install of win 10 and all worked smoothly
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Reviews around seagate (2.28 of 5)

  • I was always worried my 5 year old Seagate spinning platter hard disk was going to crash and leave me in a bad way since our Government has lost so many "unrecoverable" hard disks when they were needed for criminal investigations
  • n’t trust
  • Easy to install and fast as
  • Had a dead Laptop Thin Seagate ST500LM021 SATA drive and put this was a perfect replacement and sped things up too.
  • I can’t support Western Digital or Seagate for their unethical business practices
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Reviews around drive (2.00 of 5)

  • I was looking for more storage for my sampler and this is a solid hard drive
  • This drive was recommended to me after my current hard drive died
  • Removed my hard drive and replaced it with the new SSD.
  • The drive is very fast, but one reason I go with Samsung is ease of installation.
  • Hard drive is failing after only owning it for a few months.
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Reviews around disk (1.39 of 5)

  • Great replacement boot drive for my computer with it slow aging hard disk
  • I lost time trying different usb to sata adapters, changing bios settings, other disk tools, and nothing work.
  • Moving from a hard disk to ssd is a life savour and this ssd certainly has been amazing so far
  • Major improvement over the original OEM hard disk that came with the computer.
  • and it was not a dead disk, it was simply hanging randomly, leaving my computer froze for a minute or so once in a while.
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Reviews around hdd (1.00 of 5)

  • It can take hours, and may fail if your old HDD has errors, but it's worth a try before going through what I did (using Check Disk prog to fix errors.)If
  • Replaced a bad HDD with this SSD.
  • Replaced a failed hard drive (HDD).So much FASTER now!Well worth the price!
  • I had a failing 1TB SATA HDD in a Dell Inspiron 15-5578... using the free Samsung data migration

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Reviews around block (1.00 of 5)

  • In only 5 months of use of use, this SSD has a bad block and is failing SMART tests, showing unrecoverable errors.
  • O errors on two of the 4 drives.
  • ever since the samsung 860, ive been wary of the newer sata drives: 870, qvo, evo, etc.now within 5 months of 24/7 usage it is showing signs of bad sectors and bad blocks on the filesystemcopying 500gb off this onto another drive and going back to a tried and true working 100% 850 prosecure erase, wipe and RMA.

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